Pride (Ibi Zoboi, 2018)
A young-adult remix set in a Brooklyn neighborhood that is changing fast, where the wealthy Darcy family moves in.
The novel’s pride is also about a neighborhood. Set it where gentrification is the money question.
You want a young-adult version, and one that is about a neighborhood as much as a romance.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the sisters, the proud new neighbor and the slow change of mind.
Changes: the setting to present-day Brooklyn, and the money question to one about gentrification and who a neighborhood belongs to.
Zuri Benitez’s Brooklyn is gentrifying when the wealthy Darcy family moves in.
Whose story is it?
Zuri Benitez’s, proud of Brooklyn, her family and her Afro-Latino roots.
How much time does it ask?
304 pages in paperback.
Ibi Zoboi, Pride: A Pride & Prejudice Remix; paperback, 17 December 2019, 304 pages.
Where to find it
Buy the paperback — Bookshop.org
Other ways to get it: Paperback — Amazon · Ebook — Kobo · Kindle — Amazon
Borrow it free: Borrow on Libby · Find at your library — WorldCat
More ways into Longbourn: Penguin Classics, ed. Vivien Jones (2002) · The Oxford World’s Classics edition (2020) · The Norton Critical Edition, fourth edition